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  • Life Went on Anyway

    Stories

    Translated by Uilleam Blacker ...
    by Oleh Sentsov ...
    The stories in Ukrainian film director, writer, and dissident Oleh Sentsov’s debut collection are as much acts of dissent as they are acts of creative expression. These autobiographical stories display a mix of nostalgia and philosophical insight, written in a simple yet profound style looking back on a life's path that led Sentsov to become an internationally renowned dissident artist. Sentsov's ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution

    Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha; A Time Traveller's Guide to Donbas; Pilates Time; Bomb; House of Ghosts. Why. We. Fled. Donbas; I Don't Remember the Name; The Mother by Gorky; Tolyk the Diaryman

    by Anastasiia Kosodii, Natalia Blok, Maksym Kurochkin, Olha Matsiupa, Andrii Bondarenko, Kateryna Penkova, Ms Lena Lagushonkova, Ms Natal'ya Vorozhbyt ...
    Translated by Sasha Dugdale, Jack Clover, Daisy Hayes, Daisy Gibbons, Uilleam Blacker, Patrick Orme, Helena Kernan, Mr Rory Mullarkey ...
    Ukraine's remarkable aptitude for resilience and grassroots activism, as witnessed since February 2022, is closely connected to a process that began with the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013-14, when over two million Ukrainians took to the streets in defense of democracy and human rights. In the months directly following the Revolution, Russia illegally occupied Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, and began ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Remembering Katyn

    by Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, Uilleam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Matilda Mroz, Maria Mälksoo ...
    Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2015/2: Double Special Issue: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans and: Martyrdom & Memory in Post-Socialist Space

    by Andreas Umland, Simon Lewis, Uilleam Blacker, Iryna Starovoyt, Michael Galbas, Maria Mälksoo, Sander Brouwer, Jay Winter, Anna Reich, Markus Göransson ...
    Series Book 1.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world. The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY (JSPPS) is a new bi-annual companion ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe

    The Ghosts of Others

    by Uilleam Blacker ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe

    by Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Earth Gods

    Writings from before the War

    by Taras Prokhasko ...
    Translated by Ali Kinsella, Mark Andryczyk, Uilleam Blacker ...
    Series Book 10 - Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
    Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary writers. Collected here for the first time in one book, these works span various genres yet form a single chronicle. Anna’s Other Days, Prokhasko’s first publication, testifies to the desire to free Ukrainian culture of overt influences of voices, styles, and genres that have dominated it for ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2016/1: Gender, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

    by Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 2.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The special issue offers an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the questions of agency of less mainstream groups in protest movements in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. The themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted environments, intersections between feminism and nationalism and citizenship, possibilities of right-wing ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2016/2: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space

    by Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 2.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, in this space. Simultaneously the special issue aspires to situate these discourses and practices in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic and separatist ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2017/1: A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and Society

    by Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 3.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena. The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and authoritarianism as well as that of a never-ending story of failed Belarusian nationalism—interpretive schemes ... Read more

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

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  • Grand Hotel Abyss

    The Lives of the Frankfurt School

    by Stuart Jeffries ...
    “Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative.” —Guardian“An engaging and accessible history.” —New York Review of BooksThis group biography is “an exhilarating page-turner” and “outstanding critical introduction” to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington Post).In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and in... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD